The Goddess of Birth
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The Goddess of Birth was a virtual representation of one of Eivor Varinsdottir's genetic memories, relived by Layla Hassan through the Portable Animus HR-8.5.
Description[edit | edit source]
Eivor encountered a woman kneeling beside a road yelling that she was about to give birth.
Dialogue[edit | edit source]
Eivor encountered a woman on the ground by a road.
- Ermina: Ugh! The baby is coming!
Hoo, Mother was right. Always keep the legs closed.
Fucking shit. - Eivor: Your baby is coming. Where is the nearest healer? I can take you.
- Ermina: No need for a healer, love. Just to get to the top of that hill. I can do the rest.
- Eivor: What? All the way to the top? And, you intend to go alone in your state?
- Ermina: Yes! I'll roll my fat corpse up this hill if need be.
Eivor focused on the hilltop Ermina sought to reach.
- Eivor: It is too far to carry you like this without hurting your babe. I shall have to take you by horse.
Ermina got to her feet and they made their way to mount a nearby horse, trotting up the hill.
- Ermina: You need not help me, but who am I to look a gift Dane in the mouth.
- Eivor: It is dishonorable to leave a pregnant woman to the elements. Why does the baby's father not come to you?
- Ermina: The baby's father is a god. Moccus of the Wood saw me on Solstice and wooed me with his song.
- Eivor: You laid down with a god?
- Ermina: Aye, is that so shocking? Mary grew Christ from the touch of God. I heard of a Dane god who laid down with a horse.
- Eivor: Loki. And, he was also a horse at the time. You didn't get mounted by a horse god, did you?
- Ermina: No! It was very much a man. A godly man, definitely not a mortal. But, I didn't see him by light of day so who knows.
Eivor found the trail leading up the hill and urged the horse into a gallop as a pack of wolves drew near.
- Eivor: Picked up our trail. Hold on!
They escaped from the wolves and ascended higher up the hill, where the ruined shrine stood visible.
- Ermina: Child out of wedlock. I should raise the babe out here. Safe from town gossip. Raising it as a bastard. How they'll talk. Ha. Lying with woodland gods and living out in the wilderness, I should become a witch. What do you think, love?
- Eivor: Is that all it takes to become a witch?
They reached the peak and drew near the shrine's steps.
- Ermina: We're not far now, love. You can leave me on the steps of the temple if you want. The rest should come naturally.
- Eivor: I'm not leaving you to bleed out or be taken by wolves. If your god-lover cannot join you in birth, then I will guide your child out.
- Ermina: I doubt he will. I ran after our little encounter. Thank you, love, you have been kinder to me than my own kin.
Arriving at the shrine, they dismounted.
- Eivor: We've made it to the shrine. Do you think the otherworldly father will be able to find us?
Ermina sighed.
- Ermina: I wasn't impregnated by a god, just an ordinary man as bored as me! Doubt he'll want anything to do with this child.
- Eivor: I see. Then we shall focus on the child instead. Breathe deeply and try to relax. This will take time. I will build a tent.
Ermina did as she said while Eivor built the tent. Afterwards, she helped deliver the baby.
- Anglo-Saxon Child: (baby crying)
- Eivor: You did a great job. A healthy baby girl. Just hear that cry. Warrior's lungs.
- Ermina: A girl. I've no knowledge of warriors or what to name them. How about your name, then? Little Eivor.
A man dressed in furs entered the tent.
- Moccus: Ermina! I've been looking everywhere. Bran told me you'd run off and I worried the worst. Is that? Is—
- Eivor: This is your god-lover? I expected more.
- Moccus: God-lover? Should I take that as a compliment of my prowess or an insult to my name?
- Ermina: Go, Moccus. Our families would never approve the union, and if you're to have any reputation, you will forget me.
- Moccus: I think I get a say in that! I care not about status, and if all we have together is some hut in the woods, then so be it!
Eivor got up and left the new family in the tent.
- Eivor: A hut in the woods does sound fit for a witch and her babe.
Outcome[edit | edit source]
Eivor brought Ermina to the hilltop ruins and helped her with giving birth, after which the father Moccus joined the mother of his child.
Behind the scenes[edit | edit source]
The tent is spawned after reaching the hilltop with Ermina and seals to the outside upon completion of the memory, however it is possible to peek inside the tent using Photo Mode. Moccus' and Ermina's actors simply stand in the middle of the tent, with no actor for the baby present, and Ermina's actor continues to appear pregnant, as the developers did not feel it necessary to edit in a separate postpartum version of her character model.